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, was grey hulk suppose to show up in the last avengers flick? My understanding is that that was the plan, in the scene where the Scarlet Witch messes with the Avengers' heads, but ultimately Whedon changed it because it didn't fit with the rest of the movie.

I recently dug out pretty much all of my Marvel cosmic stuff to unload. I figure I'd trim my collection while that stuff is hot. I realized I have a bunch of newsstand issues of the early SS issues, including #1

Jar Jar.

Looks like only the black ink ran. One possibility: the boxes are still on the front covers of direct editions so the printer can print the entire run of direct and newsstand editions with common cyan, magenta, and yellow plates. The black plate is the only difference between the two editions (which is why you'll see on some comics, New Mutants 98 for example, that the black in the box looks weaker than in the art; it's because the black is backed by a CMY kicker in the art). I'm guessing what happened here is the black runs on a different schedule from the CM&Y, and they overran the print run on the direct black plate, basically printing the black on blank paper, and QC never caught it. An interesting find.

This. ^ Name any book where the hobby flopped a price gap of a $10-20 book and a $100-150 book, or even had one challenged. Never happens. Even that stupid tv screen of darksied stills sells What If? 10 / TGOT 8

I disagree. I think the masses will eventually transition over to the 1st full appearance like almost every other 1st full vs cameo situation. The cover is what sold CM 17 2nd print and the shilled garbage on ebay but I doubt that will keep it on top forever. Tell that to Eternal Warrior 4

I would say that's true for any property being published by a company that's still in business or whose rights are owned by a big company. But a lot of that copper self-published drek I can't see a demand for at any price, at any time. If the drek had a good run in the 80s, its probaby smartes to invest in now. http://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-FISH-POLICE-VOL-1-1-UNREAD-1985-FISHWRAP-PRESENTS-HAIRBALLS-NM-/400925870757?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d590b4aa5&nma=true&si=cCTwDudGe%252B4b5k1cNGahWuAER9I%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 http://www.ebay.com/itm/JUSTICE-MACHINE-ANNUAL-UNREAD-VOL-1-1-1983-1-st-appearance-of-Elements-Fn-/400925858845?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d590b1c1d When a friend of mine moved coasts years ago, he left his comic collection with me. I keep thinking I'm going to get around to packing it up and sending it to him. I mentioned it to him recently, and he basically said do what you want with it. You can sell it and split the money with me. Looking through it today, there's a ton of '80s indies. Some Critters, some Usagi Yojimbo, a couple copies of Animal Man #1. Oh, and a Detective 411.

A decent looking copy just hit Metropolis for $260. They're calling it 9.4. Looks more like 9.0/9.2 IMO. With a press perhaps it eeks out 9.4? Seems a little steep but if Elektra shows up in DD season 2 it will probably wind up a bargain. What about this...think they'll be any interest? https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3877/14304929149_3915a3287e_z.jpg' alt='14304929149_3915a3287e_z.jpg'>IMG WHAT IF #35 mm But no one ever dies. She's been around since then.

I would say that's true for any property being published by a company that's still in business or whose rights are owned by a big company. But a lot of that copper self-published drek I can't see a demand for at any price, at any time.

I don't see how they're comparable. UXM 282 is Bishops first appearance (cameo) and first cover on the first print. KK has a previous cameo and no cover on the first print. KK's case is pretty much unique, I would say. There are a few first appearance situations that I would say don't have a parallel. (Bloodshot is another that comes to mind.)

When does the character "Kamala Khan" first appear? Provide evidence that it is in any book OTHER than ANMNPO#1. The writer explicitly stated that she was intentionally placed in issue 14. http://1979semifinalist.podomatic.com/entry/2013-11-18T01_13_14-08_00 Start listening at 1:37:30 I get it - the first cameo. Not a problem. I don't get the 1st unnamed non-speaking background cameo > 1st named/costumed/full appearance thing. But like I said, the market is fickle and irrational. If the writer has to after-the-fact explain who the person in the background is, then it's not much of a significant appearance at all, IMO. 2 The facts are the facts. Individual collectors will have to decide what is most important to them. The big argument arises from people that are looking to sell books making the case for the particular book that they are looking to sell.

'fess up; who else is checking to see if any of that isn't actually drek. Who those, those Impact comics could see renewed interest if the Archie reboot takes off.

Yours is the only issue that seems to have ended anywhere north of a few bucks (9.8 slabs excluded). What offer did you actuallyaccept for it? I imagine that any interest in this is a result of the first issue of Battleworld?

I'm pretty sure that's the first issue of X-Factor I ever got when I started reading. Maybe not my first X-book though.

Even after it was selling for $20 on eBay, I was still able to find some on the shelf last Sunday (but they were gone by Monday).

When a character or event is depicted on a cover, but not in the actual story inside the book, do we consider it as "happening"? It's an old marketing ploy you used to see more often. I've never considered an image of a character on a cover an appearance in said book if he/she did not actually appear in the story inside. Add to that a publisher retroactively placing it on a second print cover, and the notion of any appearance - much less first appearance - becomes even more spurious. What we have here is the same situation as Marvel Age #97 and Darkhawk #1. Marve Age 97 features Darkhawk on the cover, and is a nice collectible for Darkhawk fans, but he's not on the inside. Thus, Darkhhawk #1 (not Marvel Age 97) is considered his 1st appearance. Rarely is there a first appearance debate that has a predecent with very similar details, and that holds true here too. First off, Marvel Age was a news magazine, not a comic book, regardless of whether it was the same size. Second, Ms. Marvel does appear in the interior of CM #17 2nd print, and she also has two appearances in-story published prior to that, regardless of how minor the appearance is.

When does the character "Kamala Khan" first appear? Provide evidence that it is in any book OTHER than ANMNPO#1. The writer explicitly stated that she was intentionally placed in issue 14. http://1979semifinalist.podomatic.com/entry/2013-11-18T01_13_14-08_00 Start listening at 1:37:30

Apparently not. If you thought the Ms. Marvel hype had died down, this sat at $510 for about 2-3 days, then boom. Captain Marvel #17 2nd Print - 5 copies I smell something fishy with that auction. Winning bidder had 62% activity with that seller and 8 bid retractions in 6 months. cough cough cough SHILL!!! Wow, I did not even notice that! They have a high rating, wonder if there is some bartering going on. Bid it up, retract, then offer a second chance to the next guy. These kind of shenanigans drive me nuts and are the main reason I avoid eBay auctions if I can help it. Even if it was, that book sells consistently for around that price. Crazy times. On average a NM copy will go for the average price of each of those issues, but I can't see there being that many buyers at that total for 5 copies in that condition. At least right now.

$200 is a fair price to get off of Staten Island. To get there, not so much.

Considering this was said in an interview, where certainly KSD didn't have the reading material in front of her, I think it makes perfect sense to say "background"; KK isn't part of the main action in that issue, so thematically she's in the background. As for the visual, sure, it doesn't look like KK in her own comic, but it's possible at that point that the artist didn't have much to go on; perhaps character design hadn't been completed by then. Or, we just recognize that artists have different styles. The two images below look like two different people as well.

From my perspective, that's the worst argument yet... Referring to the source material... good start (thumbs u However, when that source material is already in question, further evidence is required. Forming opinions unsupported by key references is not research. I like this, from the link: Someone is new to comics collecting.

Why does Iceman come with an Archangel card?

This seems very suspect. Top Left corner has fraying which eliminates it from being a 10 Same thing with a Danger Girl variant I had a couple years ago, only that corner was worse than the ASM 4 here. I gave up on understanding the difference between 9.8, 9.9s and 10s. Jerome The difference is a few thousand bucks if you can find a buyer. But I agree, there's no REAL way guarantee beyond a 9.8+ I think it's just the whim of whoever is grading your book. I submitted a book that I could find absolutely no flaws with that I figured had a shot at a 9.9 or 10 and came back a 9.8

People talking fondly about Rai #0 are people that read the books. Some of the market is based on what people want and a larger part is based on what people think people want, which may explain the additional attention on EW #4.Traditionally it could probably be argued that cameo firsts were more sought after, but large factors in that are: • people went after Valiant first appearances back in the day the way people go after first appearances now, once a character has been announced to be in a movie • Valiant would often release news of a new series, but not where the character was first appearing • When the cameo dropped, people would hoard that first issue as soon as the news was out that the new character was in it, but the subsequent issue with the full, everyone had the chance to pre-order, so those that wanted them got them. Therefore, the cameo was the one people had to hunt for. It was never so much an issue of a cameo vs. a full, but rather an issue of who had the books that people wanted. After 20-25 years a lot of those issues have gotten into the hands of the people that wanted them

Same here. I bid and won a few every now and then when the slabs were on ebay. Even then it appeared that CGC's grading was rather loose on many books. Now that they have moved to raw stuff I rarely find anything that looks accurately graded. I am sure that the reason why dealers like Sparkle City Comics grade so loosely is because they are well known for buying pedigree collections,they are Overstreet advisors and so on.....so "green" collectors associate dealers like Sparkle City as being authorities in the field . Consequently, Sparkle City know they can get away with ridiculously liberal grading standards. There are a couple other big name dealers / Overstreet advisors who pull the same sort of tricks, with selling overgraded raw comics on eBay......green collectors will pay higher prices from these sorts of dealers because green collectors are duped into paying a premium for the dealer's status in the hobby and being able to say" I bought this from Sparkle City Comics" This Avengers 196 looks like an 8.0 to an 8.5, just by eyeballing the pics. 2 transverse spine tics Oxidation staining on BC Wear on BC along upper left edge Not only do they know how to grade, they also know how to accurately describe a book's edition.. Such as the examples below: Dazzler #1 Newsstand #1 Dazzler #1 Newsstand #2 Maybe these are the only 2 known newsstand copies in existence? Hmmmm… if called on their BS, I imagine that they will defend the listing description by saying that "Newsstand Fresh" is mean to convey that it is brand new, not that it's an edition that doesn't exist.